using the My Cousins report with more than one MRCA couple

Question

I love the My Cousins tool/report!  I really appreciate that it can be sorted to group the MRCAs together.

My Petitcodiac ancestors' family tree became a very entangled vine over nearly 3 centuries.  My DNA matches from this part of the world usually are related to me from at least 2, often up to 6, common ancestor couples.  

The My Cousins report seems to be limited to reporting on only one MRCA couple, or am i not seeing the right button to push to get it to show all the common MRCA couples?

If it really can only show one, how is that one selected to be the one shown?

Is there another nifty tool somewhere that works better with family tree branches that look like my vines?  This Petitcodiac region is certainly not the only place this entanglement of family lines happened.

Cheers

Shirlea

PS maybe it would be helpful if i mentioned that my long-range goal is to sort out the DNA segments shared with my multi-matched DNA cousins not by the family lines we have in common but by the inverse of that, the family lines we don't have in common.

Answer 1

When I use My Cousins, I select the profile that is related to me (my cousin).  Then when in their profile I select "Relationship to Me", then under the relationship is a box that CAN say "explore more ...."  This will give you other MRCA, if they exist.

I hope this helps, Shirlea.

Comments

Thanks, Brad, yes, i could do that, but i was hoping to have it all in one place, without having to create a separate list myself by clicking on each cousin individually to gather the information.

I recognize that to create this, the report would have to NOT suppress duplicates, if that is what it is doing.

For instance, i have one distant cousin who is very active here on WikiTree.  We share 5 ancestors.  When i sort the cousin list by Common Ancestor, ideally i would find her on the list 5 times, once under each of the common ancestors, so i wouldn't neglect her when studying that common-ancestor grouping.

I wonder if it would be possible for the report to NOT suppress duplicates under the condition that a sort was being done under Common Ancestor.  (Sorry that i don't know the technical terms for these computer filter matters!)